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Managing Security Zones in the Subscriber Portal and Touchscreen for Cox Homelife

Summary

Solution

Security Zones

There are four basic types of security zones available for use, excluding smoke detectors.

Zone

Description

States

Entry Exit Point

Doorways that end users will use to enter an armed premises.

Open and Closed

Non-Entry / Exit Points

Windows or doorways that end users will use to enter an armed premises.

Interior Motion Detectors

Motion detectors inside the premises.

Motion and Still

Exterior Motion Detectors

Motion detectors on the premise grounds.

Subscriber Portal

To manage Security Zones, select Security > Zones on the toolbar.

Result: The Security Zones page displays.

From this page you can do the following:

View the current state of each zone and the last time each reported an event.

Click Edit to modify the names of the zones.Note: The maximum length for a zone name should be 35 characters. When zone names exceed this length, alarms for those zones cannot be delivered to the Central Monitoring Station.

Turn zones off or on in the Bypass column.

Zones that are turned off do not trip alarms when they are faulted. Fire / Smoke detectors cannot be turned off. If any security zones are currently faulted, preventing the system from being armed, you must click the Turn Zone Off button for that zone before arming the system.

To view the four most recent history events for each device, hover your mouse over each clock icon. When you move the mouse, the recent events history disappears.

Turn zones off or on by touching Turn Zone Off or Turn Zone On button.

Zones that are turned off do not trip alarms when they are faulted. Fire / Smoke detectors cannot be turned off. If any security zones are currently faulted, preventing the system from being armed, you must click the Turn Zone Off button for that zone before arming the system.

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